Responsible Conduct of Research Blog

Responsible Conduct of Research Blog

Last week the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a plan to increase public access to publications and digital scientific data resulting from research it funds. The plan is entitled, Today's Data, Tomorrow's Discoveries: Increasing Access to the Results of Research Funded by the National Science Foundation.
NSF explains, “As outlined in section 3.1 of the plan, NSF will require that...
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The UNH Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarly Activity (RCR) Committee announces the availability of training in the ethical and responsible conduct of research. This training meets the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) RCR training requirement, and is open to any member of the UNH community. While it is primarily directed at...
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It’s a sad/bad day for science when the ranks of cases used for teaching about research misconduct grow. The case of Anil Potti and Duke University is one of the most recent high profile cases involving a multiple of serious issues ~ a whistleblower who was ignored, falsification of research data, individual and institutional conflicts of interest, retracted publications, a falsified CV (Potti...
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The UNH Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) and Scholarly Activity Committee reminds the UNH community about the availability of the UNH Web-based program of RCR instruction. The 11 Web-based modules address the following topic areas:
Animal Subjects
Authorship and Publication
Collaborative Research
Conflicts of Interest and Commitment
Data Management
Hazardous Materials
Human...
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This is a reminder that the UNH Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarly Activity (RCR) Committee is holding training in the ethical and responsible conduct of research on February 6, 2015. This training meets the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) RCR training requirement, and is open to any member of the UNH community. While it...
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